AUTO-GIRO CROSSES CHANNEL.
INVENTOR SAYS HE HAD NO TROUBLE IN CONTROL. SPEED OP 100 M.P.H. LONDON, Sept. 19. Aviation critics in Britain and Franceagree that do la Oicrva’s auto-giro h the most revolutionary aeronautical development) of recent years. Flyings from Croydon, it crossed theChannel to Gape Gris Nez, this flight, being described as being as important as Bleriot’s crossing in 1909. The auto-giro reached Cape Gris Nez: one hour after leaving Croydon. Descents were voluntarily made at St. inglevert and Abbeville for refreshment instead of making a <single. hop from. Croydon to Paris, wht.ro thousands ur people welcomed the inventor. After a four-minute descent,..which 1 was almost vertical, the > machine did. not move three yards when it landed. Do la Cierva made a statement thjatthe flight was the greatest, experiment, of his life-time. He found no troubloin controlling either the height •or speed. The machine rose to an altitudeof six hud red metres in three minutes? and averaged a speed of 100 miles per hour during the flight.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1928, Page 6
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